Trauma Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities: Trauma nurses live for action and emergency situations. They cover the content and process of all the various roles nurses assume when caring for a trauma patient. They are nurses working in emergency wards and other hospital locations dealing with heavy situations. Their normal tasks consist of minor and acute problems like, preparing patients for an emergency operation and assist surgeons during an operation.

Salary: $ 60,000 - $ 90,000

Education: You will need a two year nursing degree (associates degree). You will need to complete courses physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, health promotion, ethics, and risk reductions. When applying for nursing certification, you are required to have at least two years of experience in emergency nursing prior to application for certification exam. Once you have the required clinical experience, apply for an emergency nursing certification from the (BCEN) for emergency nursing. Then take your trauma core course from the ENA.

 

Reflection: I think I would like to be a Trauma nurse because it doesn’t require a lot of educational requirements. Also it seems like an easy well-paying job, it may get difficult at times but it seems like a good job.